Three Polish regions scrap ‘LGBT-free zones’ after EU threatens to pull funding
Three regions in Poland have voted to cancel resolutions declaring themselves to be “LGBT-free zones.”With local authorities seeing pushes for gay rights as an affront to traditional Catholic family values, nearly 100 regions in Poland passed anti-LGBTQ resolutions in 2019, which the EU said violated discrimination laws.The European Commission later threatened to pull up to $150 million in funding for five local governments if they didn’t cancel the resolutions.In response, Podkarpackie, Lubelskie and Malopolskie scrapped their declarations on Monday. Another region, Świętokrzyskie, did so last week.The resolutions had largely been symbolic ammunition for Poland’s culture war.